Professor Kofi Agyekum, popularly known as Opanyin Agyekum has backed calls by the Minority members in Parliament to use the oil cash for infrastructure instead of for funding the free Senior High School (SHS) education.
He has also backed the Majority saying they also have a point; hence both sides should find a middle way, reach a consensus which will help the country.
The Minority in Parliament has accused the government of using oil cash to fund the free Senior High School (SHS) programme, instead of investing the money in infrastructure projects following the presentation of the 2018 annual report on the Petroleum Fund and the 2018 Reconciliation Report on the Petroleum Holding Fund by the Finance Committee.
But the Majority refuted this claim insisting that education is the best investment.
Contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', he said it is about time politicians take off their political hats and discuss issues dispassionately to make the country develop.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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You can put in place the infrastructures but if you do not the brains to manage what have you achieved. Pls let sticks to the funding of free SHS for knowledge is power.
Please your header for the news is misleading. Op Agyekum said both sides are making sense in their argument and therefore they jaw jaw to seek a balance. Your caption "Opanyin Agyekum Sides Minority on the Use Oil Cash" can open the good old professor to unnecessary chastising
The best investment or legacy that one can give his children, and for that matter, the country and her citizenry is education. We may not see the benefits or use today for spending PART of this oil money on our human assets. But I bet you, by the next 10 years to come, we would all appreciate how best Nana Addo and the NPP government has helped Ghana. By that time, sharing money for votes will be giving way to voting for people who have good policies to help develop this country. By that time, sycophancy and mediocracy will be giving way for competence and value for money, because we would have the class of people to do all these assessment and make informed decisions for the betterment of this country. In fact, this FREE SHS is going to cleanse the system. And there is no other source of fund than the oil money. God gave the oil to Ghana for the whole of Ghanaians and not for a few people in influential positions. Thank you Nana Addo and NPP government. God bless you and give you long life and help your party to be in govt for long.
This is part of the hypocricy that is killing this nation. People like Prof. Agyakum should be bold enough to tell the naked truth to the minority instead of trying to please everybody. As an academic, it should not be difficult to tell the minority that the govt is not using 100% of the oil funds on free SHS, so where from this claim by the minority? When the Jinapors and Mahama were enjoying FREE EDUCATION from Nkrumah's era, Ghana didn't have the full complement of our infrastructure needs. Today, they are opposing this excellent idea of allowing all of Ghanaian children from benefiting from what the northerners have been enjoying for decades. Evil people.
Somebody should show me the sort of infrastructure that has been made with the oil money since the day this oil was found.Everything that NDC claim they have done was through loans which have now burdened Ghanaians. The one that they claim was in heritage fund too cannot be found. So where is the oil money. Only a few people are enjoying from the money. Now that this government say everybody should benefit, some people say no.I totally agree with NPP government because sensible people even sell their assets to educate their chidren.
Master just pushing a child through this corrupted SHS system does not amount to educating him/her. We need proper foundation and proper infrastructure including human resources ie teachers, learning materials etc.
I know parents who never built houses (infrastructure). They invested whatever resouces in educating their children. Today, their children have built their own multiple houses. Given limited resources and a choice between education versus infrastructure (sn either/or choice), it beats my imagination that someone would root for infrastructure. Worse case scenario should be 70% education, and 30% infrastructure, if it cannot be 100% education.